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Summary

This best-selling German text is based on and inspired by the Natural Approach, pioneered by Tracy D. Terrell. With it, students learn German through communicative contexts with an emphasis on the four skills as well as cultural competence, with grammar functioning as an aid to language learning, rather than as an end in itself. The abundance of interesting activities and readings in Kontakte ensure that students are exposed to rich language input, critical to language acquisition.

Table of Contents

Einfhrung A

Themen

Aufforderungen

Namen

Kleidung

Farben

Begren und Verabschieden

Zahlen

Strukturen

A.1 Giving instructions: polite commands

A.2 What is your name? The verb heien

A.3 The German case system

A.4 Grammatical gender: nouns and pronouns

A.5 Addressing people: Sie versus du or ihr

Einfhrung B

Themen

Das Klassenzimmer

Beschreibungen

Der Krper

Die Familie

Wetter und Jahreszeiten

Herkunft und Nationalitt

Strukturen

B.1 Definite and indefinite articles

B.2 Who are you? The verb sein

B.3 What do you have? The verb haben

B.4 Plural forms of nouns

B.5 Personal pronouns

B.6 Origins: Woher kommen Sie?

B.7 Possessive adjectives: mein and dein/Ihr

Kapitel 1: Wer ich bin und was ich tue

Themen

Freizeit

Schule und Universitt

Tagesablauf

Persnliche Daten

Strukturen

1.1 The present tense

1.2 Expressing likes and dislikes: gern / nicht gern

1.3 Telling time

1.4 Word order in statements

1.5 Separable-prefix verbs

1.6 Word order in questions

Kapitel 2: Besitz und Vergngen

Themen

Besitz

Geschenke

Kleidung und Aussehen

Vergngen

Strukturen

2.1 The accusative case

2.2 The negative article kein, keine

2.3 What would you like? Ich mchte ...

2.4 Possessive adjectives

2.5 The present tense of stem-vowel changing verbs
2.6 Asking people to do things: The du-imperative